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The physics of thermodynamics, which involves quantities like heat and entropy, offers well-established tools for determining how far from...

Packaged milk drinks, including some packaged coffees, will be included in the "sugar tax", the Health Secretary has announced. Source link

The koalas clambering around eucalyptus canopies may be cuddly herbivores, but their extinct relatives were horrifying predators.The charismatic marsupials are the closest living relatives of marsupial lions — powerful carnivores that went extinct around 40,000 years ago. The findings...

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When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles.But melting ice sheets don’t...

Tiny life-forms with bright colors might point the way to big dinosaur bone discoveries.In the badlands of western Canada, two species of lichen prefer making their homes on dinosaur bones instead of on the surrounding desert rock, and their...

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them.That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to find...

The cultivation of cereal grains probably led to the emergence of the first states – which operated mafia-like protection...

Getty ImagesConservationist Tyler Hallman said NRW's approach - particularly linking networks of special sites and nature reserves - offered a positive way forward and could even lead to species currently extinct in Wales making a return."I think there are...

At a high level, ammonia seems like a dream fuel: It’s carbon-free, energy-dense, and easier to move...